Akinori Yonezawa
Japanese computer scientist
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| Intro | Japanese computer scientist | |
| Places | Japan | |
| is | Computer scientist Engineer | |
| Work field | Engineering Technology Science | |
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Akinori Yonezawa (米澤 明憲, Yonezawa Akinori, born 1947) is a Japanese computer scientist specializing in object-oriented programming, distributed computing and information security. Being a graduate of the University of Tokyo, Yonezawa has a Ph.D in computer science from MIT in the Actor group at the MIT AI Lab. He currently teaches at the University of Tokyo. He is the designer of ABCL/R, a reflective subset of the first concurrent object-oriented programming language ABCL/1.
In November 2009, he was awarded with a Medal of Honour with purple ribbon by the Government of Japan.